{"id":10107,"date":"2013-08-07T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2013-08-07T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:21:39","slug":"variations-on-the-horse-leech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/variations-on-the-horse-leech\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations on the Horse-leech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Ngram comparison of &#8220;horseleech&#8221; and &#8220;horseleach&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/graph?content=horse+leach%2Chorse+leech%2Chorseleach%2Chorseleech%2Chorse+-+leach%2Chorse+-+leech%2C&#038;year_start=1500&#038;year_end=2008&#038;corpus=15&#038;smoothing=3&#038;share=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/88637\" target=\"_blank\">horse-leech, n.<\/a>, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary:<\/p>\n<p>Pronunciation:  \/\u00cb\u02c6h\u00c9\u201d\u00cb\u0090sli\u00cb\u0090t\u00ca\u0192\/<br \/>\nEtymology:  < horse n. + leech n.1 < Old English l\u00c7\u00bdce, l\u00c3\u00a9ce, physician.\n \n1. A horse-doctor, farrier, veterinary surgeon.\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>1493   in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter &#038; Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 165   Item Johanni Hors~leych pro medicacione j equo magistri Langton, 7d.<\/li>\n<li>?1518   Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj,   Bokell smythes, horse leches, and gold beters.<\/li>\n<li>1529   T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii. x. 52 b\/2   Saynt Loy we make an horsleche, and must let our horse rather renne vnshodde and marre hys hoofe than to shoo hym on hys daye.<\/li>\n<li>1653   Z. Bogan Medit. Mirth Christian Life 234   The horse..will not endure the hand of the horseleech.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thesaurus: marshal (c1387-95), horse marshal (1508), farrier (1622), horse-doctor (1672), mule-doctor (1678), hippiatric (a1690), hippiatrist (1895)<\/p>\n<p>2. An aquatic sucking worm ( H\u00c3\u00a6mopsis sanguisorba) differing from the common leech in its larger size, and in the formation of the jaws.<br \/>\n(In some early quotes. it seems to mean the common medicinal leech.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>14..   in T. Wright &#038; R. P. W\u00c3\u00bclcker Anglo-Saxon &#038; Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 706\/26   Hec sanguissuga, a horsleche.<\/li>\n<li>1530   J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232\/2   Horse leche, a worme, sansue.<\/li>\n<li>1535   Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxx. B,   This generacion (which is like an horsleche) hath two doughters [Wycliffite The watir leche hath twei dou\u00c8\u009dtris]: ye one is called, fetch hither: the other, brynge hither.<\/li>\n<li>1573\u00e2\u20ac\u201c80   J. Baret Aluearie H. 663   An Horse leach, or bloudsucker worme, hirudo.<\/li>\n<li>1581   J. Marbeck Bk. Notes &#038; Common Places 503   The Horse-leach hath two daughters..that is, two forks in her tongue, which he heere calleth her daughters, wherby she sucketh the bloud, and is neuer saciate.<\/li>\n<li>1625   J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 15   Horse-leaches were wont to taste of the horses dung.<\/li>\n<li>1813   W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 412   Horse-leeches are..so extremely greedy of blood, that a vulgar notion is prevalent, that nine of them are able to destroy a horse.<\/li>\n<li>1880   Chambers&#8217;s Encycl. VI. 74\/2   The Horse-leech..is much larger than the medicinal species..but its teeth are comparatively blunt, and it is little of a blood-sucker\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnotwithstanding the popular notion..It feeds greedily on earth-worms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thesaurus: horse-eel (c1400)<\/p>\n<p>3. fig. A rapacious, insatiable person.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1546   Supplic. Poor Commons sig. a.iiiv,   Besydes the infinite nombre of purgatorie horsleaches.<\/li>\n<li>1608   J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes &#038; Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 118   Thou, life of Strife, thou Horse-leach sent from Hell.<\/li>\n<li>1705   E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 14   Of all Priests, the Popes have been in several Ages the great Horse-leaches, and Blood-suckers.<\/li>\n<li>1836\u00e2\u20ac\u201c48   B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. i,   He has disregarded my advice, and stuck horse-leeches on to my estate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thesaurus: gorge (c1450), sanguisuge (c1540), harpy (1589), vulture (1605), leech (1785), sanguisorb (1884)<\/p>\n<p>Derivatives<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a0 horse-leech v. Obs. (trans.) to suck insatiably (as reputed of the horse-leech):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1679   Protestant Conformist 3   They have thereby Horse-leach&#8217;d a great deal of the best blood in Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a0 horse-leechery   n. Obs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1688   R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 149\/2   Horse Leachery, or Leach-craft, is the Art of curing Horses of Diseases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a0 horse-leechcraft n. Obs. veterinary medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Ngram comparison of &#8220;horseleech&#8221; and &#8220;horseleach&#8221;: here. And horse-leech, n., defined by the Oxford English Dictionary: Pronunciation: \/\u00cb\u02c6h\u00c9\u201d\u00cb\u0090sli\u00cb\u0090t\u00ca\u0192\/ Etymology: < horse n. + leech n.1 < Old English l\u00c7\u00bdce, l\u00c3\u00a9ce, physician. 1. A horse-doctor, farrier, veterinary surgeon. 1493 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter &#038; Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 165 Item Johanni [&hellip;]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2544],"tags":[1300,1301,538],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-google-ngram","tag-vampirism","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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